Peter Campbell's blog

TO: Labor Cabinet The massive Adani Coal mine must not proceed.  It will contribute to the death of the Great Barrier Reef and the coal p...

Reza Barati, an Iranian asylum seeker incarcerated at the Manus Island "offshore processing centre" in Australia's care was m...

I just has a look at an online betting site (no free ads on my blog!).  Based on their odds Coalition 1.3 Labor 11.50, they seem certain th...

Watching the Labor party tear themselves to bits over the last 3 years has not been a pretty sight.  Alarm bells sounded for me when I list...

Honesty in politics is a rare thing.  We don't get to hear about what happens in Cabinet, the Labor Caucus or the Liberal-National Party...

Where there is smoke there is fire. I have wondering about media reports over the last several months about "Kevin Rudd agitating to ...

Labor's policy initiative for implementing a high speed National Broadband Network arguably was a decisive factor in them forming minori...

When political parties lodge their "group voting tickets" with the Electoral Commission, their distribution of preferences reveals...

The 2010 Australian Federal election results are not yet finalised, but it appears that no party has enough seats (76) to form government on...

An open letter to: Labor Government Cabinet Members Eastern Metropolitan Region Labor party members I find it very disappointing that the E...

Today, Adele Carles , the Greens candidate for the Fremantle byelection, won the seat. This is an event that represents a turning point in...

I understand the Victorian Labor (ALP) State Conference this weekend considered the following motion: Preamble Climate change is already wel...

Here is a letter I have just sent to Peter Batchelor cc to Victorian Ministers and some other MPs on feed-in tariff legislation. Feel free t...

Below is the third letter I have sent to Peter Batchelor; so far he has not bothered to answer my first two. I don't think he will both...

It is World environment day on the 6 June. I couldn’t believe my ears when I saw and heard Garrett on the ABC TV news and 7:30 report tonigh...

What on earth is going on in the Victorian Cabinet? After visiting the Bali convention on climate change and using their generous travel all...

Just when I thought government rhetoric and funding (using taxpayer's money) on pretending that the coal industry can somehow be made ...

It is interesting to observe the serious lack of real political commitment from Labor, Liberal and Family First parties to seriously address...

I bumped into Bob Hawke in Melbourne airport just after the 2004 federal election, and asked him what on earth happened with Mark Latham and...